"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished": Ignaz Semmelweis and the Story of Puerperal Fever. (16th May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Manor, Joshua; Blum, Nava; Lurie, Yoav
• Is Part Of: Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Volume 37:Number 8(2016)
• Page Start: 881
• Page End: 887
• Publication Date: 2016-05-16
• Subjects: Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health facilities -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Cross Infection -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Hospitals -- Periodicals; Infection Control -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.100
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-823X

Abstract

Abstract : Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born almost 200 years ago, in 1818, to a well-to-do middle class Hungarian family. He started law school in 1837, switched to medicine a year later, and graduated in 1844.